Jade Cargill
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Podcast Appearances
Well, first of all, Tashina Arnold and Tisha Campbell are like best friends in real life.
They've done multiple movies together.
So like they were casted probably because they have a history.
Like I think I think they've all done movies before this together when they were all in the same movie.
So do you think it's possible that the same person that has a stereotypical trope on his show named Shanaynay, is that her name?
You don't think that that person who created that character is capable of having a little bit of colorism in their jokes?
Even if they're not doing it on purpose.
I'm not saying he's not capable of having colorism in his jokes.
I'm saying I don't think that that was Martin's point and that was his thought process.
Oh, I don't think so either.
I don't think so either.
No, because what I'm saying is it's embedded.
Sometimes we have stereotypes in our head that because we were raised on it, we don't even think about it.
It's not us intentionally being racist or being colorist or anything.
These are things that this was the way the world was when we were raised.
So there's some things we just don't think about.
I don't think he was intentionally trying to be harmful because she was dark skinned.
I think those were automatically the jokes he went to because that's what people have always said about dark skinned women.
It's the easy low hanging fruit.